Efficacy Sunflowers

Sunlight is very beneficial and important to the lives of all living beings, whether plants, animals, and humans. The depiction of the sun are usually rounded yellow with yellow flames around it. Picture of the sun that makes the large size of the flowering plant with yellow color is often called the sunflower. So named because there are other reasons. Sunflower always faces toward the sun where it rolled over. At night the flowers bowed down, while during the day the flower show his face.
Many people who consider anual short-lived herbaceous plants as ornamental plants only. You see, the shape and color of flowers are very attractive and lovely. Trunked plants wet (herbaceus) grows up as high as 1 to 3 meters. The entire surface of the plant stem rough-skinned and have feathers. Heart-shaped green leaves. For flowers, large size with a crown shaped like a cup of yellow tape along the edge of the cup.
Many people do not realize that the sunflowers have many benefits beyond beauty. The flowers contain quercimeritrin, helianthoside ABC, oleanolat acid, and acid echinocystat. For seeds, there is the content of beta-sitosterol, prostagladin E, chlorogenic acid, quinat, phytin, and 3-4 benzopyrine. All parts of this plant has efficacy. The flowers have the effect of lowering blood pressure and reduce pain (analgesic). Seeds as antidisentri and stimulate the body's secretion of fluid and measles. The leaves are potent anti-inflammatory, analgesics, and antimalarials. Its roots also have efficacy for anti-inflammatory, bullets urine, cough, and analgesics. While the nutritious marrow stem and flowers stimulates vital energy, analgesic, soothing liver, and many more.
Use of all parts in this plant could be in the form of fresh and dried. External use crushed vegetation and affixed on the sick. Examples for rheumatism, ulcers, and inflammation of the breast. Use for deep, tumbuahnnya boiled and drunk. There is also a roasted like seeds, then finely ground, poured boiling hot water and drunk. Treatment in this way is to headaches, dizziness, toothache, etc.. Meanwhile, to extract marrow can destroy nitrosamines and can be used for the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal tumors.